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Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease in which the body's own immune system overreacts ...

In science, the suffix "phage" means to devour. Thus, the name bacteriophage might conjure images of tiny creatures that "eat ...

Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the ...

Malaria kills more than half a million people a year, most of them young children in Africa. Two vaccines are now recommended ...

Microplastics have become nearly impossible to avoid. They have been detected in oceans, drinking water and even the human ...

Parkinson's disease affects more than 10 million people worldwide. The disease is characterized by the buildup of abnormal ...

As temperatures on Earth continue to rise, some researchers have been trying to understand how climate change influences ...

Experiencing severe stress during childhood can make a person more vulnerable to anxiety, depression and other mood disorders ...

One of the crucial steps in cancer proliferation is evading killer immune cells. Cancer cells use a variety of signaling ...

As more Americans with HIV live into older age, Medicare spending on their care is projected to rise dramatically from $10.9 ...